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No time for this

Time's a strange concept. Seems that at any given point in time, my brain seems not to be totally in the present, but instead engaging simultaneously in sidetrips to the past and future. As they so aptly said in the song, does anybody really know what time it is? And while time "keeps on slippin' into the future," it can also seem to be standing still when there's something that you're lookin' forward to.

Time

And an astronomer said, Master, what of Time?

And he answered:

You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable. You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons.

Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.

Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness,

And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

And that that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.

Idioms: time flies when you're having fun -- time to time

Idiom * Meaning * Example

time flies when you're having fun time *goes quickly when you are playing, how time flies * He looked at his watch, yawned and said, "Time flies when you're having fun, eh."

Pink Floyd - Time

(Mason, Waters, Wright, Gilmour) 7:06

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way. Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say.

DOES ANYBODY REALLY KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS

As I was walking down the street one day

A man came up to me and asked me what the time was that was
on my watch, yeah

And I said

Does anybody really know what time it is
I don't

Does anybody really care
care

If so I can't imagine why
about time

We've all got time enough to cry
Oh no, no

And I was walking down the street one day

A pretty lady looked at me and said her diamond watch had
stopped cold, yeah

And I said

Does anybody really know what time it is
I don't

Does anybody really care
care

If so I can't imagine why
about time

We've all got time enough to cry
Oh no, no

And I was walking down the street one day

Being pushed and shoved by people trying to beat the clock,
oh no, I just don't know,
I just don't know

And I said, yes I said

RAP
People runnin' everywhere
Don't know the way to go
Don't know where I am
Can't see past the next step
Don't have to think past the last mile
Have no time to look around
Just run around, run around and think why

Does anybody really know what time it is
I don't

Does anybody really care
care

If so I can't imagine why
about time

We've all got time enough to die
Oh no, no

• time is money
• time is valuable, time is equal to money
• Employers who pay hourly wages know that time is money
• time is of the essence
• it is important to work as quickly as possible
• make hay while...
• When you're paying $75 an hour for a lawyer's services, time is of the essence
• time off /
• days off work, holidays
• I've been working too hard. I think I need some time off
• time on your hand
• time to relax or do what you wish, time to kill
• If you have time on your hands, read the novel Fifth Business
• time out
• stop for a minute to discuss or plan
• We need a time out to look at the map. I think we're lost
• time ran out
• there was no more time allowed for the game etc.
• Time ran out before I could complete the exam
• time stands still
• everything seems to slow down or stop moving, slo mo
• When the towers went down, time stood still
• time to kill
• time to relax or rest, kill time
• We had some time to kill while the car was being repaired
• time to time
• time's a wasting
• we are wasting time, we should be working
• Time's a wasting. Let's finish our work and then rest
• time's up
• there is no more time for the test or game etc.
• The coach checked his watch and said, "Time's up. Stop running."
• times were hard
• it was a time of poverty, hard times
• It was 1850. Times were hard in Sweden then.